That Anonymous Coward (profile), 28 Jan 2022 @ 12:12pm
Re: Re:
Was a picture I saw in my travels in internet land... it made me laugh.
One does wonder how many cats can sit on the dish before signal quality degrades.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 28 Jan 2022 @ 12:11pm
Because reinventing the wheel make sense to someone somewhere.
We have regular citizens who have access to better communication platforms than our military.
We are paying top dollar for "testing" that seems to be endless and leaves our military in the lurch.
One would think with things going sideways in Ukraine having a secure messaging system for military use to make sure messages arrive in a timely and secure manner might matter.
But hey we bought 500 more MRAPs that we'll end up handing out to police departments with 5 officers rather than manage to have secure communications.
How can the nation be safe when we can't make sure our troops can actually get orders or information they need?
But then they also refuse to make sure we live up to our responsibilities to those who put their lives on the line so they can have the freedom to keep lying to citizens that its not a real disease & leading to more deaths.
Billions of dollars on programs/gear we really don't need... but things we desperately need yesterday... well maybe in another decade of testing.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 27 Jan 2022 @ 7:26pm
"Defendants have designed Instagram and Snapchat to allow minor users to use, become addicted to, and abuse their products without the consent of the users’ parents, like Tammy Rodriguez."
So Insta & Snapchat gave the CHILD the several hundred dollar phone & paid the monthly bill.
We tried to take it away but she ran away to use her accounts elsewhere. Well perhaps you should have told your childs friends parents that no internet access & maybe discuss the bad things you are seeing as the whole peer group could be infected.
I'm sorry your child took her own life, but here is the harsh truth...
The platforms did nothing wrong.
You failed to parent your child over & over, expecting that the same internet where you are warned about predators luring kids away had this magical protective motivation to protect your kid raises questions about why we don't require a license to have kids.
You will win nothing, you will stay in your tiny room blaming the platforms & the courts for not doing the 'right' thing & never deal with the remorse that will creep into your mind from time to time that you failed as a parent.
You bought the phone, you paid the bill, you never talked about expectations & rules until it was a problem.
This didn't happen in a weekend & you did the very least expecting others to do your job parenting & protecting your child.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 27 Jan 2022 @ 7:13pm
Did the woman who was running Wendy's Twiiter account get a new job at Subway? I know she had left Wendy's (IIRC) and this is the same sort of thinking & playful corporate wink she made the twitter account famous for.
Subway is going to see a boost, MSCHF will remain a top the lets see who we can piss off this month hill, its brilliant and its win win.
The best part is, I doubt they collaborated on this (maybe near the end). Subway saw an opening & jumped into the playful end. No whining they were left out, they dove right into the middle of the party with a cannonball no one saw coming.
Everyone gets a lot of publicity & goodwill, and everyone walks away still 'friends' and some lawyers cry having not been unleashed.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 27 Jan 2022 @ 7:01pm
That thing we told them would happen when they made it legal to rob citizens... happened (yet again.)
Of course they are only pissed that this idiot drew to much attention & screwed it up for everyone else.
This chief is the PharmaBro of asset forfeiture.
They will punish this 1 dipshit, make some noise in the media, and quietly go back to padding budgets on the backs of people who's only "crime" was being close enough to the hellmouth so the cops could rob them blind.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 27 Jan 2022 @ 6:55pm
Starlink the only thing its been good enough for is making me laugh.
A Starlink dish in a snowy backyard covered with cats who have discovered how hot the whole thing runs.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 26 Jan 2022 @ 6:40pm
That in which one wonders about lead exposure in copyright maximalists.
They've seen this plan done, they have watched it fail.
They've seen this plan done again, they have watched it fail again.
They've seen this plan done yet again, they have watched it fail yet again.
They imagine that THIS TIME they will make it work, despite still working from the flawed basis for the reasoning for "needing" this tax.
Of the people screaming for this "tax" (read yet more corporate welfare) ask them exactly what will happen when the big mean big tech guys refuse to link to them any longer to avoid the costs.
Ask them how quickly they will fail with no traffic.
Ask them how much they had paid big tech for bringing them traffic before demeaning big tech pay them for giving them traffic.
Ask them why they have never considered using robots.txt, a simple tiny fix that would keep big evil tech from indexing them.
This isn't an actual problem, except in the imaginations of some.
The only thing worse than imaginary problems, are the "solutions" offered up.
They could have and can still keep themselves being indexed, but they refuse to do so, instead pretending they are the poor poor victims of Big Tech sending them traffic that they can't get on their own.
Before attempting to expand copyright yet again with more "rights" perhaps it is time we demand responsibility for the rights they already have & abuse on a daily basis.
Maybe get an actual report done by a group not beholden to the industry to has crippled every innovation in the nation because they imagine it might hurt their business model that hasn't adapted since the ice age.
Discover there aren't these huge losses as claimed & that allowing them to demand more and more actually makes the problem worse as they punish paying consumers because they care more about dollars they think they are losing.
If McDonalds operated as copyright holders did, the burgers would be tiny, in boxes where you have to pay to unlock each topping you might want, and sometimes it would just take your money & not unlock the toppings because stopping people using their own ketchup matters more than if you enjoy your burger. They'd be out of a business in a week, as they should be.
They shouldn't be given rewards for making business decisions that literally are driving people to other burger places.
But then the office is beholden to the industry & could give a shit if the public every gets any benefit from copyright... corporate profits & control matter more than anything else... like citizen rights.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 26 Jan 2022 @ 4:03pm
slaps the editor, hands out a d
"A review cannot be requeste for this restriction."
This is the most wrong portion of this.
I mean random numbers triggering the bot is bad, but the fact there is no redress or recourse to challenge it horrifying.
Broken tools & broken systems aside, removing the ability to challenge the "findings" when you spot what you think is an error is wrong on so many levels.
But then the entire system is lopsided in believing anyone who can claim they hold a copyright would never ever fib (despite the huge pile of cases where scammers are making bank) & that it is to onerous or impossible to challenge the claims when even a child could see its not infringing.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 26 Jan 2022 @ 3:51pm
"acted quickly when made aware of these issues"
Crazy crazy idea... how about actually testing them BEFORE putting them into use to verify they are what they claim?
Then lets get the warrants out & find out how big the kickbacks were & exactly how deep the corruption went.
Then one has a serious question about what was happening while they were punishing these people for false positives, if they were having all of these positive cases did they even bother to look at how the alleged drugs were getting in? I mean its a fucking prison, its supposed to be hard to get things in & well lets be honest there are guards who make a nice income smuggling things in & others who enjoy lots of sex for a couple pills.
How many of these tests weren't wrong, but were switched to protect their prison mistress?
But then humans labeled them as bad people & stopped caring, because to look closer might make them wonder if we've labeled the wrong team as bad guys.
On the post: Musk's Starlink Continues To Struggle With Very Basic Customer Service
Re: Re:
Was a picture I saw in my travels in internet land... it made me laugh.
One does wonder how many cats can sit on the dish before signal quality degrades.
On the post: Because The Defense Department's Secure Communications Options Don't Work For Everyone, Soldiers Are Turning To Signal And WhatsApp
Because reinventing the wheel make sense to someone somewhere.
We have regular citizens who have access to better communication platforms than our military.
We are paying top dollar for "testing" that seems to be endless and leaves our military in the lurch.
One would think with things going sideways in Ukraine having a secure messaging system for military use to make sure messages arrive in a timely and secure manner might matter.
But hey we bought 500 more MRAPs that we'll end up handing out to police departments with 5 officers rather than manage to have secure communications.
How can the nation be safe when we can't make sure our troops can actually get orders or information they need?
But then they also refuse to make sure we live up to our responsibilities to those who put their lives on the line so they can have the freedom to keep lying to citizens that its not a real disease & leading to more deaths.
Billions of dollars on programs/gear we really don't need... but things we desperately need yesterday... well maybe in another decade of testing.
On the post: Mother's Lawsuit Attempts To Hold Snapchat, Instagram Responsible For Her Daughter's Suicide
"Defendants have designed Instagram and Snapchat to allow minor users to use, become addicted to, and abuse their products without the consent of the users’ parents, like Tammy Rodriguez."
So Insta & Snapchat gave the CHILD the several hundred dollar phone & paid the monthly bill.
We tried to take it away but she ran away to use her accounts elsewhere. Well perhaps you should have told your childs friends parents that no internet access & maybe discuss the bad things you are seeing as the whole peer group could be infected.
I'm sorry your child took her own life, but here is the harsh truth...
The platforms did nothing wrong.
You failed to parent your child over & over, expecting that the same internet where you are warned about predators luring kids away had this magical protective motivation to protect your kid raises questions about why we don't require a license to have kids.
You will win nothing, you will stay in your tiny room blaming the platforms & the courts for not doing the 'right' thing & never deal with the remorse that will creep into your mind from time to time that you failed as a parent.
You bought the phone, you paid the bill, you never talked about expectations & rules until it was a problem.
This didn't happen in a weekend & you did the very least expecting others to do your job parenting & protecting your child.
On the post: Mother's Lawsuit Attempts To Hold Snapchat, Instagram Responsible For Her Daughter's Suicide
Re:
Because it is corporations responsibility to protect children.
On the post: Are Overly Aggressive Trademark Lawyers Learning Not To Be Such Assholes All The Time?
Did the woman who was running Wendy's Twiiter account get a new job at Subway? I know she had left Wendy's (IIRC) and this is the same sort of thinking & playful corporate wink she made the twitter account famous for.
Subway is going to see a boost, MSCHF will remain a top the lets see who we can piss off this month hill, its brilliant and its win win.
The best part is, I doubt they collaborated on this (maybe near the end). Subway saw an opening & jumped into the playful end. No whining they were left out, they dove right into the middle of the party with a cannonball no one saw coming.
Everyone gets a lot of publicity & goodwill, and everyone walks away still 'friends' and some lawyers cry having not been unleashed.
On the post: Alabama Town Has 1,253 People, Nine Cops, And Generates $600,000 A Year From Traffic Stops
That thing we told them would happen when they made it legal to rob citizens... happened (yet again.)
Of course they are only pissed that this idiot drew to much attention & screwed it up for everyone else.
This chief is the PharmaBro of asset forfeiture.
They will punish this 1 dipshit, make some noise in the media, and quietly go back to padding budgets on the backs of people who's only "crime" was being close enough to the hellmouth so the cops could rob them blind.
On the post: Musk's Starlink Continues To Struggle With Very Basic Customer Service
Starlink the only thing its been good enough for is making me laugh.
A Starlink dish in a snowy backyard covered with cats who have discovered how hot the whole thing runs.
On the post: Nintendo Sics Lawyers To Take Down Fan-Made FPS 'Pokemon' Game Footage
That thing where protecting their image is the only thing that matters, even if in doing so you are doing way more harm to the image.
On the post: Nintendo Sics Lawyers To Take Down Fan-Made FPS 'Pokemon' Game Footage
Re:
What you did there...
I'm sorry I saw it.
On the post: Cops' New Favorite Junk Science Is Pretending Being Anywhere Near Fentanyl Will Literally Cause Them To Die
"“People should not be in jail for imaginary crimes,” [Dr. Ryan] Marino said."
The "Super Predators" agree.
On the post: Wherein The Copia Institute Tells The Copyright Office That Link Taxes Are A Good Idea Only If You Want To Kill Off Journalism
That in which one wonders about lead exposure in copyright maximalists.
They've seen this plan done, they have watched it fail.
They've seen this plan done again, they have watched it fail again.
They've seen this plan done yet again, they have watched it fail yet again.
They imagine that THIS TIME they will make it work, despite still working from the flawed basis for the reasoning for "needing" this tax.
Of the people screaming for this "tax" (read yet more corporate welfare) ask them exactly what will happen when the big mean big tech guys refuse to link to them any longer to avoid the costs.
Ask them how quickly they will fail with no traffic.
Ask them how much they had paid big tech for bringing them traffic before demeaning big tech pay them for giving them traffic.
Ask them why they have never considered using robots.txt, a simple tiny fix that would keep big evil tech from indexing them.
This isn't an actual problem, except in the imaginations of some.
The only thing worse than imaginary problems, are the "solutions" offered up.
They could have and can still keep themselves being indexed, but they refuse to do so, instead pretending they are the poor poor victims of Big Tech sending them traffic that they can't get on their own.
Before attempting to expand copyright yet again with more "rights" perhaps it is time we demand responsibility for the rights they already have & abuse on a daily basis.
Maybe get an actual report done by a group not beholden to the industry to has crippled every innovation in the nation because they imagine it might hurt their business model that hasn't adapted since the ice age.
Discover there aren't these huge losses as claimed & that allowing them to demand more and more actually makes the problem worse as they punish paying consumers because they care more about dollars they think they are losing.
If McDonalds operated as copyright holders did, the burgers would be tiny, in boxes where you have to pay to unlock each topping you might want, and sometimes it would just take your money & not unlock the toppings because stopping people using their own ketchup matters more than if you enjoy your burger. They'd be out of a business in a week, as they should be.
They shouldn't be given rewards for making business decisions that literally are driving people to other burger places.
But then the office is beholden to the industry & could give a shit if the public every gets any benefit from copyright... corporate profits & control matter more than anything else... like citizen rights.
On the post: Google Drive's Autodetector For Copyright Infringement Is Locking Up Nearly Empty Files
slaps the editor, hands out a d
"A review cannot be requeste for this restriction."
This is the most wrong portion of this.
I mean random numbers triggering the bot is bad, but the fact there is no redress or recourse to challenge it horrifying.
Broken tools & broken systems aside, removing the ability to challenge the "findings" when you spot what you think is an error is wrong on so many levels.
But then the entire system is lopsided in believing anyone who can claim they hold a copyright would never ever fib (despite the huge pile of cases where scammers are making bank) & that it is to onerous or impossible to challenge the claims when even a child could see its not infringing.
On the post: Google Drive's Autodetector For Copyright Infringement Is Locking Up Nearly Empty Files
Re:
stares in 3 minutes of silence & white noise
On the post: Devin Nunes, CEO Of Trump's TRUTH Social, Confirms That 'Free Speech' Social Media Will Be HEAVILY Moderated
It used to be when you saw images of cows be censored you knew it had to be a flaw...
On the post: House Introduces 'Innovation' Act That Will Kill Innovation
I miss having a functioning government.
Ahh they heady days of the 1800's.
On the post: Investigation Shows Faulty Drug Tests Resulted In Hundreds Of New York Prisoners Being Wrongly Punished
"acted quickly when made aware of these issues"
Crazy crazy idea... how about actually testing them BEFORE putting them into use to verify they are what they claim?
Then lets get the warrants out & find out how big the kickbacks were & exactly how deep the corruption went.
Then one has a serious question about what was happening while they were punishing these people for false positives, if they were having all of these positive cases did they even bother to look at how the alleged drugs were getting in? I mean its a fucking prison, its supposed to be hard to get things in & well lets be honest there are guards who make a nice income smuggling things in & others who enjoy lots of sex for a couple pills.
How many of these tests weren't wrong, but were switched to protect their prison mistress?
But then humans labeled them as bad people & stopped caring, because to look closer might make them wonder if we've labeled the wrong team as bad guys.
On the post: Patent Applications Hint That Facebook's VR World Might Just Be Web Mutton Dressed Up As Metaverse Lamb
Re:
But none of those are making super secret revenue streams...
On the post: Smartmatic Sues MyPillow CEO For Defamation Over His Months Of Nonstop Election Conspiracy Theories
Oh we don't need to spend money to remove those lead service lines, everything will be fine...
Again I will ask the important question...
How the FUCK are humans still alive?
On the post: Smartmatic Sues MyPillow CEO For Defamation Over His Months Of Nonstop Election Conspiracy Theories
Re: Re: 'What do you mean speech has consequences?! Not for me!'
Ummm Pookie...
"But, at some point someone's going to ask you where the evidence is, or why nothing happened after 2 weeks..."
You know there are STILL people camping out in Daley Plaza waiting for JFK Jr to reappear right?
On the post: Yet Another Really Dumb Lawsuit Filed Against Meta Because Some People Who Did A Bad Thing May Have Met On Facebook
The family should be suing the lawyers for malpractice.
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